Improvement in revenue-stamp holders



DS. p Holder.

Patented Oct. 7, 1879.

O. J. Revenue-S UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. SANDS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TWOTHIRDS OF HIS RIGHT TO HARRIET J. KIERNAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND CHARLES C. COOK, OF

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVENUE-STAMP HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,431, dated October 7, 1879; application filed August 20, 1879.

rel, or hogshead containing liquor or liquid of any kind, around the tap-hole or bung-hole,

which holder is recessed on opposite sides to receive the opposite ends of stamps,-and is provided with holding-plates, which fit into the recesses, and, acting with the holders and through the agency of a projecting tooth or lug between the holders and plates, secure the stamps in place, when inserted, so that they cannot be removed, and the contents of the vessels cannot be withdrawn through the tap or bung without puncturing or tearing the stamps.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure l is a plan view, partly in section, and Fig. 2 a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig, 1.

A indicates an annular stamp-holder adapted to fit around a tap-hole or bung-hole. B B

indicate recesses in its under surface on oppositesides, and O O lug-cavities cut in the tops ofthese' recesses. D D are holding-plates, providedwith holding-lugs d d, the whole adapted to enter and be secured in the recesses and cavities, as illustrated in the drawings.

It will be noted that the lugs are, like barbs or ratchet-teeth, inclined on one side, (next the center of the holder,) and perpendicular (or it may be inwardly-inclined) on the other side.

When the holder-plates are secured in place open ways a: :0, into which the holding-teeth project, will be left for the reception of the ends of a stamp, S, provided with end apertures, a a, and a central tap or bung-covering part, as set forth in my said Letters Patent of the United States. These stamp-holders should, preferably, be riveted t0 the heads or staves of the liquor-vessels, around the bungs or taps, ready for the reception of the stamps, so as to be irremovable Without access to the inside of the vessel.

To apply the stamps after the vessels are filled, their opposite ends are slid into the open ways to tr, when the lugs d d will enter the holes a a, and, acting like barbs, will securely hold the stamps so that they cannot be removed without tearing them and rendering them unfit for a second use, and the contents of the vessels cannot be disturbed without detection.

The holder and stamp combined thus consti tnte a complete guard or look for a bung or tap, and will prevent frauds upon the revenue, and protect merchants and dealers having liquors or liquids stored or in transitu.

It will be obvious that more than one lug or tooth on each side may be used, if desired and the relative positions of the lugs and lug-cavities might be changed-that is to say, the teeth might be on the holders and the cavities in the holder-plates; and the holders might be rectangular or other shaped instead of annular; and the holders might be secured to the vessels by other means than I have indicated without departing from the substance of my invention. a

It is desirable that the stamps be long enough to have their ends project a little beyond the outer margin of the holders, so that they can be seen and can be readily removed after the stamp has been broken and has served its purpose.

The holder A, with its recesses B B and lugcavities G O, and the holding-plates D D, with their lugs or barbs cl d, although made separately, are fixedly attached and secured to gether in place, and the device thus operates precisely as though made in one part, the stamp being affixed by endwise movement or the slipping of its ends in place, so as to cause its openings to register with and be engaged by the lugs. These lugs are so formed as to facilitate the insertion of the stamp and pre vent its withdrawal without rupture.

It will be seen that as the stamp ends are the holding-plates fitted in the recesses of the holder and having the upwardly-projecting lugs, and the fastening devices by which both the holder and the holding-plates are fixedly or unchan geabl y secured in position to receive and hold a stamp and prevent its removal without destruction, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

CHARLES J. SANDS.

Witnesses I. W. SANDS, C. F. LANGFORD. 

